How to get attribute of element from Selenium

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I m working with Selenium in Python  I would like to get the  val   of a  lt select gt  element and check that it is what I expect   This is my code   def test chart renders from url self       url    http   localhost 8000 analyse       self browser get url      org   driver find element by id  org         Find the value of org    How can I do this  The Selenium docs seem to have plenty about selecting elements but nothing about attributes

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Python  element get attribute  attribute name     Java  element getAttribute  attribute name     Ruby  element attribute  attribute name     C   element GetAttribute  attribute name

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You are probably looking for get attribute    An example is shown here as well  def test chart renders from url self       url    http   localhost 8000 analyse       self browser get url      org   driver find element by id  org         Find the value of org      val   org get attribute  attribute name

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As the recent developed Web Applications are using JavaScript  jQuery  AngularJS  ReactJS etc there is a possibility that to retrieve an attribute of an element through Selenium you have to induce WebDriverWait to synchronize the WebDriver instance with the lagging Web Client i e  the Web Browser before trying to retrieve any of the attributes   Some examples    Python    To retrieve any attribute form a visible element  e g   lt h1 gt  tag  you need to use the expected conditions as visibility of element located locator  as follows   attribute value   WebDriverWait driver  20  until EC visibility of element located  By ID   org     get attribute  attribute name    To retrieve any attribute form an interactive element  e g   lt input gt  tag  you need to use the expected conditions as element to be clickable locator  as follows   attribute value   WebDriverWait driver  20  until EC element to be clickable  By ID   org     get attribute  attribute name       HTML Attributes  Below is a list of some attributes often used in HTML    Note  A complete list of all attributes for each HTML element  is listed in  HTML Attribute Reference

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